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Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics , the eighth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including:

Advances in Residual Stress Measurement Methods

Residual Stress Effects on Material Performance

Optical, Ultrasonic, and Diffraction Methods for Residual Stress Measurement

Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging

Inverse Methods

Inverse Methods in Plasticity

Applications in Experimental Mechanics

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Analysis of Thrust Production in Small Synthetic Flapping Wings.- Coarse-resolution Cone-beam Scanning of Logs Using Eulerian CT Reconstruction. Part I: Discretization and Algorithm.- Coarse-resolution Cone-beam Scanning of Logs Using Eulerian CT Reconstruction. Part II: Hardware Design and Demonstration.- Crack Nucleation Threshold Under Fretting Loading by a Thermal Method.- Crack Growth Study of Fibre Metal Laminates Using Thermoelastic Stress Analysis.- Crack Detection in Large Welded Components Under Fatigue Using TSA.- Hybrid Thermoelastic Analysis of an Unsymmetrically-loaded Structure containing an Arbitrarily-shaped Cutout.- Quantitative Themographic Characterization of Composites.- Thermal Deformation of Micro-structure Diffuser Plate in LED Backlight Unit.- Polariscopy Measurement of Residual Stress in Thin Silicon Wafers.- Curvature From Residual Stress in Rapidly Quenched Amorphous Metals Using Abrasive Layer Removal.- Slitting Method Measurement of Residual Stress Profiles, Including Stress Discontinuities, in Layered Specimens.- Repeatability of the Contour Method for Residual Stress Measurement.- Repeatability of Incremental Hole Drilling and Slitting Method Residual Stress Measurements.- Drilling Speed Effects On Accuracy Of HD Residual Stress Measurements.- Ultrasonic Nonlinear Guided Waves and Applications to Structural Health Monitoring.- Defect Detection in Composite Structures Using Lock-in Infrared Thermography.- Digital Image Correlation for Identification of Vibration Modes.- Application of VFM for the Simultaneous Identification of Visco-pseudo-hyper Elastic Constants of Rubbers.- Anisotropy Evaluation of Paperboard With Virtual Fields Method.- Investigation of Fatigue Properties of Titanium Alloy Applying Variational Infrared Thermography.- Monitoring Materials Under Impact With Infrared Thermography.- Damage Induced Evolution of the Thermal Diffusivity of SiC/SiC Composite.- Identification of Welding Heat Sources From Infrared Temperature Measurements.- Nondestructive Evaluation of Fiber Reinforced Polymers With Lockin Thermography.- Realistic 3D FE Modelling of Peening Residual Stresses of Strain-rate Sensitive Materials With Oblique Incident Angles.- Water Cavitation Peening by Ultrasonic Vibration for Improvement of Fatigue Strength of Stainless Steel Sheet.- Effect of Residual Stress on Spallation of NiCrBSi Coating.- Multiaxial Fatigue Resistance of Shot Peened High-strength Aluminium Alloys.- Quantifying Residual Strains in Specimens Prepared by Additive Layer Manufacturing.- Parameter Determination of Anisotropic Yield Criterion.- Performance Assessment of Inverse Methods in Large Strain Plasticity.- Optical - Numerical Determination of the Flow Curves of Anisotropic Steels and Failure Prediction.- Advanced Biaxial Cruciform Testing at the NIST Center for Automotive Lightweighting.- An Enhanced Plasticity Model for Material Characterization at Large Strain.- Residual Stress and Phase Transformation map for Impact Fatigued Zirconia.- Characterization of Silicon Photovoltaic Wafers using Infrared Photoelasticity.- Acoustic Emission Analysis Of Aluminum Specimen Subjected To Laser Annealing.- Optical Analysis of Weld-induced Residual Stress by Electronic Speckle-pattern Interferometry.- Shape Is Not Enough to Test Hypotheses for Morphogenesis.- FBG Based Insitu Characterization of Residual Strains in FDM Process.- Polynomial Fitting Techniques for IRT Inspection.- In-flight Infrared Thermography for Studies of Aircraft Cabin Ventilation.- Study of Elastomeric Membranes for Vibration Dampers in Non-stationary Conditions.- Structural Dynamic Modification to Predict Modal Parameters of Multiple Beams.

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